In the fall of 2011, I posted about a Disneyland employee, Korin Rodriguez, who filed a class action lawsuit against Disney alleging Disneyland violated California law by not providing cast members with seats. Ms. Rodriguez recently voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit after Disney’s attorneys found some rather interesting evidence (which I’ll discuss a little later).

The Patent and Trademark Office recently published one of the principal utility patents applications Disney filed for MyMagic+. Publication of a patent application typically occurs about 18 months after it is filed which means Disney filed the patent application in July 2011. Let’s get the legal terms out of the way. Upon filing, patent applications […]

Perhaps only Disney could settle a class action lawsuit, have no class members object to the settlement, but have the settlement approval process take over nine months. I’ve previously written about the class action lawsuit by visually impaired guests in a July 2011 post (after the judge certified it as a class action). I wrote again, in […]